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Sinopse
A podcast about dance and movement-based performing arts. Dirty Feet is a unique, informed and accessible conversation surrounding artistic creation with the dance industry, and the role of movement in peoples lives.
Episódios
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#197 • Skin Songs
07/06/2023 Duração: 37minAn interview with Jessica Ruano about the world premiere of Skin Songs. This dance theatre performance takes place outside in a public park in Ottawa, Canada. The score, along with the performer's personal stories, are delivered via headphones while the four women dance through the park dressed in red. The show, which focuses on a variety of experiences and perspectives of femininity, was devised by Eleanor Crowder, Jacqui duToit, Jessica Ruano, Lola Ryan and Angela Schleihauf. It is being presented as a part of the TACTICS (Theatre Artists’ Co-operative: the Independent Collective Series) 2023 Mainstage Season. You can also listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or Spotify. Want more? To support the creation of future Dirty Feet episodes visit www.patreon.com/allisonebdance and consider becoming a patron.
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#196 • Stopgap Dance Company & This is Happening
02/06/2023 Duração: 42minAn interview with Hannah Sampson, a Senior Dance Artist with Stopgap Dance Company, and Renata Soutter, Co-Director of Propeller Dance. Stopgap Dance Company (based in Southeast England) is driven by a diverse creative team who uses dance as a movement for change. Propeller Dance (based in Ottawa, Canada) is an integrated dance organization for people with and without disability. This conversation focuses on their international collaboration resulting in the production This is Happening, a show co-produced by the National Arts Centre and premiering at LabO in Ottawa in June of 2023. For more in-depth interviews with both of the Co-Directors of Propeller Dance, listen to Dirty Feet Episode #184. You can also listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or the Dirty Feet website. Want more? To support the creation of future Dirty Feet episodes visit www.patreon.com/allisonebdance and consider becoming a patron. [Image description: In a brightly lit dressing room with lighted mirrors on the
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#195 • Exciting Cause
22/12/2022 Duração: 34minHost Allison Elizabeth Burns speaks with playwright, actor, and director Laurie Fyffe about her new upcoming play, Exciting Cause (about the women of Rockwood Asylum) and an associated workshop, Moving Through Theatrical Space. The show’s script and movement are being developed simultaneously, influencing one another. Allison is choreographing the production and facilitating the workshop, and so takes on the role of interviewee mid-way through the episode.
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#194 • Ana Gherasim
26/04/2022 Duração: 40minAna Gherasim is an artist, educator, and the owner and founder of Azucar, Latin Dance Company in Ottawa. We speak about her evolving relationship to dance, how her studio has changed recently, and what is on the horizon for a more inclusive and consent-aware social dance scene.
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#193 • Brittney Canda
19/07/2021 Duração: 37minBrittney Canda is a choreographer and dance film director among other things. We speak about her unique style, how she discovered her love for dance on film, and her recent accolades. Specifically we talk about her works, Wrap Me Up - which was awarded Best Choreography in a Music Video at the UKMVAs - and Touch which was awarded Best Film at Festival Quartiers Danses.
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#192 • Dance in a Pandemic
01/03/2021 Duração: 01h19minThis episode explores the impact the COVID-19 global pandemic has had on different Contemporary dance artists in Ottawa. Yvonne Coutts the artistic director of the Ottawa Dance Directive, Sylvie Desrosiers the director of the Contemporary Dance program at The School of Dance, Frédérique Pelletier a recent graduate of that same school, and Elizabeth Emond-Stevenson a mid-career independent dance artist. This selection of artists are all at different stages in their career, and yet only represent a sliver of experience. The pandemic has affected dance artists in Ottawa and beyond in a variety of ways only some of which are represented here.
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#191 • Dark Horse Dance Projects 2017
02/04/2018 Duração: 01h11minThis episode covers the third edition of the Dark Horse Dance Projects which took place in September 2017. Host, Allison Elizabeth Burns, starts off the episode by interviewing Project Leader, [ … ]
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#190 • Judith Davies
01/12/2017 Duração: 42minIn a very special episode, Allison interviews her childhood dance teacher. Judith Davies has been a pillar of the Ottawa dance community for many years. She is the Director and [ … ]
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#189 • Do You Want to Live Forever?
10/06/2017 Duração: 50minDirty Feet host, Allison Elizabeth Burns is premiering the multidisciplinary show, Do You Want to Live Forever?, at the Ottawa Fringe Festival this summer. In this episode she speaks with co-creator [ … ]
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#188 • Marie-Josée Chartier
10/05/2017 Duração: 34minAward winning, multi-faceted artist, Marie-Josée Chartier is presenting work in Ottawa this week. She speaks with Allison about scale, big projects and small projects, her company, Chartier Danse, working with [ … ]
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#187 • Tristan Henry
07/05/2017 Duração: 23minDirty Feet Resident Composer, Tristan Henry is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and music teacher based in Montreal. Although we hear his music every episode, the last time he was on the [ … ]
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#186 • The Idea of the North
02/05/2017 Duração: 31minMay 12th in Wakefield, QC, Jordan Es is producing the event, Rooted Contemporary Dance. The show is a double bill featuring Jordan’s choreography, The Idea of the North and a [ … ]
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#185 • Mathilde Papillon
15/04/2017Mathilde Papillon describes her vision for bringing together dance and science. She recently gave a TEDxKanata talk on Novel ways to talk science: dancing relativity. A student at the French [ … ]
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#184 • Propeller Dance
28/03/2017Propeller Dance is an integrated contemporary dance company based in Ottawa. The organization is recognized as a leader in Canada for their innovative, inclusive creations and teaching practices. I speak [ … ]
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#183 • Sylvie Desrosiers
14/03/2017Sylvie Desrosiers is not only the Director of Contemporary Dance Studies at The School of Dance (see episode #181), she is also an established choreographer, and the Artistic Director of [ … ]
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#182 • Laura Taler
04/03/2017Laura Taler is a multitalented artist who has worked as a choreographer, dance-film director and visual artist. She is presenting an exhibition at Gallery 101 titled, The soft and the [ … ]
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#181 • The School of Dance
27/02/2017This episode features a conversation with Sylvie Desrosiers, the Director of Contemporary Dance Studies at The School of Dance. We talk about the benefits of a conservatory-style training, successful program [ … ]
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#180 • Trust
23/02/2017The show TRUST, a requiem for wood and stone, by 10 Gates Dancing is being presented by the Ottawa Dance Directive in their upcoming Séries danse 10 / Series Dance [ … ]
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#179 • The Working Arts
02/02/2017This episode features a complete episode of The Working Arts podcast by Erica Martin. The tables are turned, and Dirty Feet host, Allison Burns is interviewed. In this new podcast, Erica [ … ]
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#178 • The Ghomeshi Effect
14/12/2016The Ghomeshi Effect is a verbatim dance-theatre piece that tackles sexual violence in Canada. Creator and Director, Jessica Ruano, and Choreographer, Amelia Griffin, tell us about their work in theatre [ … ]